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Simon Perkins

Male 1737 - 1778  (40 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1744 
  • 1744: King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748.
1745 
  • 1745: E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
1752 
  • 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
1755 
  • 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
1756 
  • 1756: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
1757 
  • 1757: John Campbell invents the sextant.
1758 
  • 1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
1759 
  • 1759: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
1760 
  • 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
10 1761 
  • 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
11 1764 
  • 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
12 1767 
  • 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
13 1768 
  • 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
14 1769 
  • 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
15 1774 
  • 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
16 1775 
  • 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  • 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
  • 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
17 1776 
  • 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.